Thinking "informatically" : a new understanding of information, communication, and technology

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Title:

Thinking "informatically" : a new understanding of information, communication, and technology

Author:

Bryant, Antony (Antony Bernard David), 1953-

ISBN:

9780773457041

Personal Author:

Bryant, Antony (Antony Bernard David), 1953-

Publication Information:

Lewiston [N.Y.] : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.

Physical Description:

xii, 198 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Thinking informatically -- Ch. 2. Information -- Ch. 3. Only communicate -- Communication as making common -- Understanding communication - communications technology -- Communication & information -- Metaphors of communication - conduits & toolmakers -- Resolving the Shannon-Wiener paradox - communication is a social process -- Ch. 4. Technology -- Ch. 5. Liquid modernity : milestones & maelstroms -- Ch. 6. Informatics - disciplined strategies for disciplinary complexities.

Subject Term:

Management information systems -- Study and teaching (Higher)

Information technology -- Study and teaching (Higher)

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0702/2006046838.html

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Summary

This work aims to re-orient a discipline by a close examination of three of its key terms - information, communication and technology. In so doing, it argues for this re-orientation to be accompanied by adoption of the term 'informatics'; and as such the author intends that readers will be encouraged to start thinking informatically, and he analyzes the way the subject matter has been defined by the scholarly community. Meaning of these words as they have evolved is traced and confusion and contradictions in definition are exposed.